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Featured Member
Kurt A. Sanftleben, LLC
Virginia Beach, VAhttp://read-em-again.com
Unique Americana, that is, we keep a selection of personal narratives such as diaries, work journals, correspondence collections, photograph albums, scrapbooks, and similar items that shed light on some aspect of North American life, culture, or society. Additionally, we always have a nice selection of philatelic material (primarily postal history) and other paper ephemera.
Selections from Member's stock
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1862 – Letter from a New Orleans attorney providing outdated information to an associate in New York regarding the method of sending mail to him across-the-lines in the early years of the Civil Warby Louis Janin
New Orleans, Louisiana 1862
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1889 – “Democrats Sweep the Country” - comical election results cartoon broadside from Bucks County in which the Democratic Party plays fast and loose with its claim of a sweepBucks County, Pennsylvania 1889
offered by Kurt A Sanftleben
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1810 – Letter from the Commanding General of a Massachusetts Militia Division to one of his brigade commanders expressing irritation that an election of a company officer had been bungledby Major General Nathaniel Goodwin
Plymouth, Massachusetts 1810
offered by Kurt A Sanftleben
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1887-1888 – Four maps of the Klamath Indian Reservation in Oregon that have been removed from an unidentified government publicationby H. L. Muldrow
Washington, DC 1888
offered by Kurt A Sanftleben
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1854 – A short business letter that goes on to report the beginning of the Crimean War and Russia’s search for alliesby David Wealtensun
Liverpool, England 1854
offered by Kurt A Sanftleben
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